Conquering COVID-19
August 27, 2020
UC and UC Health researchers are conducting research around the clock to fight COVID-19 and find out more about the virus.
August 27, 2020
UC and UC Health researchers are conducting research around the clock to fight COVID-19 and find out more about the virus.
April 30, 2020
Stroke researchers at the University of Cincinnati have released a new report recommending the proper protocol for delivering lifesaving treatment to stroke patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 6, 2020
Long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, the World Health Organization declared 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. With the spread of the coronavirus pandemic around the world, the role of the nurse in global health care has never been more critical, and the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing is taking steps to ensure that the nursing pipeline remains robust.
April 30, 2020
Dis-Box is an ultraviolet box designed by a group of University of Cincinnati engineering students that may help extend use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers at Cincinnati’s Crossroad Health Center. UC family medicine professor Christine O'dea put a call for help when faced with a shortage of PPE and the engineering students and their professor Mary Beth Privitera answered the call.
April 23, 2020
Dr. Kenneth Sherman, director of the University of Cincinnati Division of Digestive Diseases, is using a $48,000 pilot grant from the UC College of Medicine, to examine the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen of COVID-19, in liver cells to determine patterns of injury and understand resulting innate immune responses.
May 4, 2020
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center is joining the international hunt to uncover knowledge about the coronavirus. The UC center will focus on an area it is far too familiar with: patients with cancer.
April 28, 2020
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is collecting specimens from COVID-19 patients to be stored in a biorepository as part of the Cincinnati COVID-19 Repository (CCR) effort. The specimens will be used by researchers to learn more about the COVID-19 infection and possible treatments and preventions for not only this disease but possibly diseases of the future.